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Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Essays & Letters
Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of the Cat ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Essays & Letters
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal ex ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Odd Woman and the City - A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance en ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Social Thought
I sometimes think I was born reading ... I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. A celebration of the delights of rereading from the acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City In nine essays that meld criticism and memoir, Gornick retur ...Show more
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